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Grades 6, 7 and 8 - English Language - Middle School - Writing - Quoting, Paraphrasing and Summarizing
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Grades 6, 7 and 8 - English Language - Middle School - Writing - Quoting, Paraphrasing and Summarizing
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1. A lot of our knowledge of history comes from movies, stories, and television. Not all of this knowledge is true even though we might think it is. (Mintz, S.; The First Americans).
2. While some medical students have been found out to be guilty of the vice of smoking, their bad habit varies geographically. More is yet to be studied about this phenomenon (Brenner & Scharrer, 1996).
3. Since the H7N9 virus is extremely unpredictable in its ability to pass from one person to another, officials are watching it intensely to avoid a human pandemic. (Fox, NBC News, 2013).
4. The United States, Germany, Japan and other economies are being dramatically changed from industrial economies to knowledge and information based service economies as manufacturing shifts to countries where the wages are low cost. In knowledge and information economies, knowledge and information are the focus in economic growth (Laudon & Laudon, 2000).
5. Since the H7N9 virus is extremely unpredictable in its ability to pass from one person to another, officials are watching it intensely to avoid a human pandemic. (Fox, NBC News, 2013).
6. The rise of industry, the growth of cities, and the expansion of the population were the three great developments of late nineteenth century American history. As new, larger, steam-powered factories became a feature of the American landscape in the East, they transformed farm hands into industrial laborers, and provided jobs for a rising tide of immigrants. With industry came urbanization - the growth of large cities (like Fall River, Massachusetts, where the Bordens lived) which became the centers of production as well as of commerce and trade.
7. While some medical students have been found out to be guilty of the vice of smoking, their bad habit varies geographically. More is yet to be studied about this phenomenon (Brenner & Scharrer, 1996).
8. The United States, Germany, Japan and other economies are being dramatically changed from industrial economies to knowledge and information based service economies as manufacturing shifts to countries where the wages are low cost. In knowledge and information economies, knowledge and information are the focus in economic growth (Laudon & Laudon, 2000).
9. The legal system is made up of civil courts, criminal courts and specialty courts such as family law courts and bankruptcy courts. Each court has its own jurisdiction, which refers to the cases that the court is allowed to hear. In some instances, a case can only be heard in one type of court. For example, a bankruptcy case must be heard in a bankruptcy court. In other instances, there may be several potential courts with jurisdiction. For example, a federal criminal court and a state criminal court would each have jurisdiction over a crime that is a federal drug offense but that is also an offense on the state level.
10. The rise of industry, the growth of cities, and the expansion of the population were the three great developments of late nineteenth century American history. As new, larger, steam-powered factories became a feature of the American landscape in the East, they transformed farm hands into industrial laborers, and provided jobs for a rising tide of immigrants. With industry came urbanization - the growth of large cities (like Fall River, Massachusetts, where the Bordens lived) which became the centers of production as well as of commerce and trade.